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Rite Aid: $80 worth of product for just $15 (including diapers)

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The past two weeks have been CRAZY at Rite Aid, with tons of freebies and enough +UP Rewards and Single Check Rebate offers to make your head spin. I know it can be a little overwhelming to look at the full list of match ups and attempt to figure out the best plan of attack and learn how to minimize your out of pocket cost without doing 27 transactions and driving the cashiers out of their mind.

I hope it helps when I share my shopping trips and scenarios with you, the idea behind it is to give you a little inspiration and a starting-off point to plan your own shopping trips. I know we don’t always need exactly the same things, but hopefully it helps to see a basic layout.

If I’m purchasing several +UP Reward items, I try to do a minimum of 3 transactions to lower my out of pocket. The first two are generally +UP Reward items and then the third is (hopefully) any Single Check Rebate offers there may be that week. This allows me to “cash in” my +UP Rewards from the previous transactions.

Used $7 in +UP Rewards from previous transactionPaid $7.39, Received $2 +UP Reward

Total spent out of pocket: $28.17Will submit for: $10.99 in Single Check Rebates

Final price: $17.18 + I still have a $2 +UP Reward to spend

After all is said and done, I spent about $15 on TONS of practical items. This purchase rounded out my candy supply for trick-or-treaters, my medicine cabinet is now stocked full of all-natural cold and cough products for the coming winter months and I even picked up a few items to donate. $15 is about the price of JUST the box of Luvs diapers, so I’m pretty thrilled with my trip.

One thing to note on the Cover Girl scenario: I could have lowered my out of pocket even more, but I only had three of the $8/2 coupons and I felt like buying the toilet paper was more useful for our household right now.

I can’t wait to hear how you did this week, I am having so much fun shopping at Rite Aid lately!

I know you can combine Rite Aid coupons with Manufacturers coupons, but when I printed my Video Values coupons, they had the Rite Aid logo and info on there but stated it was a ‘Manufacturers Coupon’ so I thought I could not use the other coupons I had brought along with me. Are you still able to redeem it as a ‘Rite Aid coupon’ and stack it with a ‘Manufacturers coupon’ ?

Meghan is right, you can stack the Rite Aid store coupons with traditional manufacturer coupons, even though the RA coupons actually say “manufacturer coupon” on them. I really do wish they would change the wording to make it less confusing!

You can find it all in the coupon policy and if you think you will have trouble, print a copy and take it with you. It tells you exactly which coupons can be used together. Most of the VV coupons have an RC49 at the beginning of the barcode, which according to the policy, means they can be stacked.

Only 2 manuf q’s per transaction? That’s a new one. And if they let you do 5 transactions, then what’s the point? To get to the extreme couponers is my guess. Lucky for you they decided/judged that you weren’t one.

It makes me feel bad when they come up with this stuff. I realize how frustrating some couponers can be for them. Jess, I am of course not in any way referring to you.

yah, i was like, “oh thats gonna suck—” and she finished my sentence with “for the couponers” and im like, ” no. for the cashiers! haha! im patient, i can do like 12 transactions, i dont mind” LOL “keeps my out of pocket expense waaaay down, AND i dont have to do the math on how to set up my transactions!” LOL Backfire!!! 😀 … (the cashier told me 1 manu q per transaction at first, then called over the manager to double check when i was like, whaaaaat??? and he whispered, i have no idea what youre talking about, and then he just said 2 per trans. i was like, PHEW! two i can live with! hahahahahaha)

Jess, that is not what the Rite Aid coupon policy says. It sounds like that store is making up its own rules. I would carry the RA coupon policy with me. The only manufacturers coupon limits are 4 of the same coupon per person per day. It is not per transaction, it is per day. you can have as many different MC as you want, but only 4 of each identical coupon. You could have 4 Arnicare coupons, 4 Colgate toothpaste coupons, etc. HTH!

haha! yeah, im totally aware of that. but im fairly easy to get along with…when it comes to getting Free Stuff LOL and even easier when im getting Paid to shop there! 🙂 if they wanna switch up the rules for a minute ill play the game haha! we have 6 or 7 rite aids in our area, possibly 8, so im not hurting if That store wants to “be like that” 🙂 but yah, its def bologna, completely made-up-on-the-spot coupon policy. i find it humorous though.

My trip was amazing! Used 4 of the $8/2 cg q’s, and profited well on that deal. Paid $1 each.for two old spice body sprays and 50¢.each.for two packs of stayfree pads. Got the 50¢.mm on arnicare gel, and $1 on the revlon mm! It was awesome! …the only thing, apparently ours changed its coupon policy, so only 2 manu q’s per transaction (or so they told me) so I did 5 separate transactions. No biggie for me lol!

2 per transaction? Obviously you know that is definitely not their policy! Plus, if they are letting you do tons of transactions, what’s the point in limiting the number of coupons? I’m glad they eventually let you use all your coupons, over 1 transaction or 5. 🙂 Glad you had a good trip!